Grieving relatives wept over the coffins of dozens of victims of Genoa's bridge disaster Friday amid growing fury over a planned state funeral, while rescuers pressed on with their tireless search
for those missing in the rubble.
A priest in Bari province has stirred controversy after inviting churchgoers to a mass dedicated to Rocco Sollecito, a mafia boss shot dead in Canada in May.
Thousands of mourners sang as they walked through the streets of Milan Saturday to pay their respects to Italy's Nobel prize-winning dramatist Dario Fo at a lay ceremony in front of the city's Gothic cathedral.
Hundreds of mourners flocked to Milan's Sforza Castle on Tuesday to pay their respects to Italian literary giant Umberto Eco, the intellectual phenomenon behind the best-selling "The Name of the Rose".
Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino has slammed the state-run broadcaster Rai for inviting the family of mafia boss Vittorio Casamonica, whose lavish funeral sparked outrage last month, to appear on one of its shows.
The daughter of mafia boss Vittorio Casamonica, who was last month given a lavish funeral in Rome, has sparked more outrage after comparing him to Pope Francis.
Italy's interior minister has demanded to know why a mafia boss was allowed a lavish funeral, with his coffin drawn through the streets of Rome in a gilded horse-drawn carriage as roses petals were dropped from a helicopter.
A gilded horse-drawn carriage, rose petals thrown from a helicopter and the theme tune from The Godfather. You really couldn’t make it up: this was how mourners paid their last respects to a mafia boss in Rome on Thursday, sparking outrage in a city embroiled in a mafia-linked corruption scandal.
Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge and the mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino, are due to attend the funeral on Friday of a transgender Colombian, who was beaten to death in the Italian capital in July.
Italian authorities appeared at a loss Thursday on what to do with the body of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke who died last week while living under house arrest for massacring 335 civilians.
Thousands turned out for a mass funeral on Tuesday for the victims of a coach crash in southern Italy as flags
flew at half-mast and the nation mourned the 38 dead.
Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta will join bereaved relatives at a mass funeral on Tuesday for the 38 people killed in Italy when a coach plunged off a viaduct near Naples. He also announced a national day of mourning for Tuesday.
